Brilliant DIY costumes!

I am approaching the level of stress induced insanity where going to class in one of these costumes is starting to sound like a fun idea.

DUDE!

There I was on the operating table, drowsing off and saying goodbye to my pal. Just before things were going dim it occured to me that I could politely request a user account while keeping my sexual orientation consistent with the last 28 years of my life. Whew! Who said librarians weren't practical? Or male for that matter?

So, here I am! No sex change, and just as preoccupied with procrastination.


In the spirit of kicking things off, here's a wonderful distraction that never fails to cool my blood after hours of cataloging busy work.

Found Footage Fest Trailer

Clearly a job at Wendy's is better than cataloging. If only they had shown me that video before I enrolled in library school.

just like a woman

I had to do it; he is persuasive. Jamie is our latest invitee to the SLIS.P.B. Just remember, man, the P stands for Procrastination, not an anatomical part.

whoa.

Just when I think that my life is the pits (can I tell you just how much I hate, hate, hate cataloging? and issues in the classification of electronic resources? and library history? and final papers?), the Internet gods part the dark clouds of despair and send down a shiny, bright little hyperlink of joy. For some more audio fun, check out Drunk Dialed. Yes, friends, you can listen to real calls from real, drunk strangers talking about really stupid stuff, all from the comfort of your home, the SLIS computer lab, or your office cubicle. This cyber-gem is my salvation in the misery that is the last two weeks of the semester.

Dirty old men sing dirty old songs

I can't manage to link to exactly where I want to send you guys, so you'll have to bear with me and follow these instructions. Trust me, it's worth it.

First, go to The Mills Music Library Special Collections. Click on "Search the collection" and type the keyword "vulgar". This will turn up a list of 19 songs collected in the 1940s as part of a folk music preservation program. You can play RealMusic files of men then in their 70s singing the vulgar songs of their youth. And I don't mean vulgar in a quaint "I spied the ankle of a merry maid" variety, I mean songs that couldn't get played on the radio even today. Horrifying, yet hilarious.

I learned about this very special special collection thanks to my esteemed coworkers. Isn't it fun to work in a library?

you better run faster than that, fat man

Here's a link to an MSNBC transcript about Rove's continuing legal troubles and the awesomeness that is Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury trial. "The presidential advisor is now more worried, not less, that he is going to get indicted" according to the report. Boo-ya, Turd Blossom, Boo-ya. Let's all think happy thoughts and wish on stars that Fitzmas will come sometime soon!

Silly Comics

This is how Nate gets me on the bus in the mornings for school...